Britain will purchase Meteor air-to-air missiles from a European consortium rather than an off-the-shelf product from America's Raytheon.

ECONOMIST: Terra nova

The LTO tape consortium (led by HP, IBM and Quantum) has a public tape product roadmap that will take magnetic tape technology out to about 13 TB of native (uncompressed) storage capacity.

FORBES: Magnetic Tape Turns 60

The Arkansas-based company is the primary funder behind the Sustainability Consortium, a multi-stakeholder initiative that is developing a sustainability index at the product level.

FORBES: An Open Letter to the Journal: Why CSR Is Good For Shareholders and Society

Through its work with the Sustainability Consortium, an organization the company created and funded to quantify the sustainability impact of products at the individual product level, the purchasing habits of millions of Walmart customers are about to change.

FORBES: Walmart Flexes Its Sustainability Muscles